Dungu Vs Gangu and Pedestrian beginning by India bowling

The Dungu Vs Gangu stories still filled the airways for the 2nd day in running. The punches and counter punches were exchanged with great fervour in forums, chats and blogs. Pawar added his own twist by giving a vote of confidence to Dungu (RSD). Dada for his part, ignored the RSD slams and landed with the other 3 in Pak. ( On a lighter vein !! there must be a huge shortage of RSD effigy suplies in Cal by now !!)
I am pretty sure that the last word in this saga is yet to be told.

Let me turn to the 2nd day of India Vs Pak A game.

There was so much pre tour hype about Pakistan bowling that most pundits concentrated on how Indian batting will perform against Shoaib & co and promptly forgot about the Indian bowling. On a day, when Agarkar is the best Indian bowler on view, I guess it has to be a sad day for anyone turning their arm around in this country.

Zaheer khan talked about his shortened run up, his new quest for wickets and a new energy to redeem past failures. But, alas 7-0-43-0 figures only reflects the clobbering he received from Imran Farhat and Hazan Raza and none of above improvements he was promising. ZK has let India down so many times ( how about WC 2003 finals for example) that the above promises sounded hollow for the most part but I was still willing to give the benefit of doubt since there is no other bowler worth the salt, around. Is this going to be another round of disappointment and humiliation? I have rarely seen ZK rediscovering himself, once things start to go wrong but I hope I am wrong this time. ZK has to mend his ways quickly, otherwise – it is heading to the old ways of John Wright – Sourav era.

The rest of the bowling was nothing worth mentioning – R P Singh (dubbed Raw Pace Singh in forums) got carted off and Bhajji was ineffective for the most part. Pathan was ok but not incisive enough to make inroads into some A team.

Well !! if this is what is going to be the story against an A team, wait till Inzi, Butt, Afridi come around and feast on this toothless, uninspiring, pedestrian pie throwers. If I am Dravid, I will be almost tempted to play both Kumble and Bhajji now since ZK seemed to have had a horrible day. Ways to go – bowlers – unless, things turn around quickly, the leather hunt seems to have just began.